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FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (Cambridge). Lief Thybo, organist; Eva Borgstrom, soprano. Bach: Prelude and Fugure in D Major: Stravinsky:' Dum-barton Oaks Concerto (transcribed for organ). Tickets: $4 (students...
...screen, and had to resort to all sorts of scraps off the cutting-room floor. While a maladjusted youth (Randolph Roberts) scurries about a California seaside resort slicing up comely blonde lodgers, an organist (Maryesther Denver) appears on whichever side of the screen is unoccupied and plays the organ score from The Phantom of the Opera-1925 version. Miss Denver has the gruesomely businesslike air of the nurse who used to assist your childhood dentist with extractions and appears totally transported as she pulls out the organ stops. Wicked, Wicked is so obstinately mundane that it takes a while...
...staffed by ten physicians, sees 500 a year. Rimoin and his colleagues can now identify at least 50 types of dwarfism, and have determined the causes of many of these abnormalities. Midgets, who are tiny but normally proportioned, are usually victims of an underactive pituitary gland, a pea-sized organ at the base of the brain that is largely responsible for the secretion of growth hormone (HGH). Other dwarfs, who tend to have normal-sized heads and trunks but extremely short arms and legs, usually have different hormone deficiencies...
...whole new set of psychological responses in transplant cases are being studied. The recipient is so unique he does not even know how he is expected to react. The heart is the most palpable of organs: How does it feel to have a dead man's pulse? The easy response is any pulse is better than none. But surely there are lonely hours when an organ recipient realizes that he is no longer totally the same...
...course, the donor need not always die, and the organ need not be as evocative as the heart. The kidney operates silently, and there is a large pool of potential donors because most people have two. The donor of a kidney must balance the risk to himself against the reward of saving a life. For the purposes of tissue matching, relatives are preferred as donors. Often their motivation is more guilt than compassion, guilt that can blossom into resentment when all attention is focused on the recovering recipient. Once donors become a significantly large group, a whole new sort...